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NOTES. Mr. John Lewis, who is conducting the English team in Australia, is _7O years of age. lie holds the long-service medals of the Football Association, the Foot bn’i League, and worthy so, as Ambassador ox Sport.
In Australia the teams do not, upon entering the field, indulge in a little shooting practice, as in England and usually in New Zealand. 3 hey iue up in fioiit of the pavilion, and give three hurrahs for each other. In Switzerland the or president of a foreign team i"s presented with a large boquet.
The report from Paris of a “silent sports meeting,” where dumb and dear teams met in their own Olympic Games, reminds me that Mil.wall, during the war, played a deaf and dumb goalkeeper. One of the Berks and Bucks clubs played a one-legged goalkeeper some years ago, but 1 think the case of MillwaU must be unique in the annals of good class fbotball. Curiously enough,! a dumb soldier, watching a match at Mil’wall during the period of the war, became so excited that he regained the power of speech.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 June 1925, Page 9
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